Asus Transformer gets Ice Cream Sandwich in early February

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Operating system updates are always welcome on our portable devices, and particularly so when they add loads of new functionality — as Ice Cream Sandwich does for Android smartphones and tablets. It’s too bad that the update waiting game has to get so confusing and frustrating at times. Take the Asus Transformer TF101, for example.

Recently, Asus representatives had announced that their original keyboard-docking tablet would receive the bump to Android 4.0 immediately after it rolled out to their latest, the quad-core Tegra 3 Transformer Prime. That would’ve pegged the days following today (when the one for the Prime was due to head to users) as your Transformer update ETA. There seems to have been a miscommunication somewhere along the line, however.

The ICS update for the Transformer still needs to be approved by the crew in Mountain View, which Asus Singapore reported to customers via their official Facebook page. They also said that they’re figuring it will take a couple weeks and that the update should be on schedule for delivery near the end of the month.

But wait, there’s another twist! Asus has informed Android Police that the update is in fact coming in early February. That, of course, still fits with Asus Singapore’s estimate of “around the end of the month,” since the first few days of next month fall into that window, too.

The bottom line, of course, is that if you own an Asus Transformer TF101 your update is coming very soon. Much sooner than some other ICS updates that have been announced by other manufacturers, and just in time for you to show off Android 4.0 to your friends who just received PlayBook OS 2 on their firesale RIM tablets.